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Pérez Art Museum Miami Raises More than $500,000 for the Fund for African American Art with Matching Grant from Knight Foundation

Nearly 350 guests attended Pérez Art Museum Miami’s Fifth Annual Reception for the PAMM Fund for African American Art, Art + Soul,on Saturday, February 18. The special evening kicked off with an intimate dinner in Paresky Hall emceed by Local 10 Anchor Neki Mohan. Alberto Ibargüen, president and CEO of the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, welcomed supporters and announced that Knight Foundation would match every dollar raised this year in an effort to support the growth of PAMM’s incredible collection of African American Art. Throughout the evening, more than $250,000 was raised towards the match-more than $500,000 total-ensuring that works by African American artists will always be represented in PAMM’s permanent collection for generations to come.

Carol Crapple, Ira Hall, & Suzanne Armstrong

“We are thrilled to see how this fund has evolved and grown over the past five years. By offering a match, we’re supporting the Miami community in building a collection of great art by African American artists that will inspire and connect us all,” said Alberto Ibargüen, president of Knight Foundation.

“We are continually grateful for Alberto and Jorge’s contributions to this Fund, which grants us the incredible opportunity to continue to build a great collection of contemporary African American art that our audiences can enjoy for generations to come, and we are overjoyed to add Tschabalala’s work to our collection this year.”

Self said a few words about her work, Chopped Cheese (2017), which explores the environments of identity politics by focusing specifically on bodegas-public storefronts that serve as a hallmark of lower-income Black and Latinx communities throughout New York City. Known for her collage and assemblage paintings, Self’s work examines contemporary perspectives on femininity, race, and gender.

The PAMM Fund for African American Art was established in 2013 with the donation of a $1 million grant, funded equally by Jorge M. Pérez and the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, for the purchase of contemporary art by African American artists for the museum’s permanent collection. Through the Fund, the museum first acquired works by Al Loving, Faith Ringgold, and Xaviera Simmons. These works joined other significant PAMM collection objects by artists such as Leonardo Drew, Sam Gilliam, Rashid Johnson, Lorna Simpson, James Van Der Zee, Carrie Mae Weems, Kehinde Wiley, and Purvis Young, among others.

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